The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-11-09
POLITICIANS AS WORKINGMEN.
Nichols Members Of the knights Of
Labor Resolve to Destroy Great
Louisiana Industry.

New Orleans Times Democrat.
District Assembly No. Log, knights of La
Dor, adopted resolutions Friday condenning
the action OF Gov McErery Ill ordering out
the militia to the Tech country to preserve
the peace, and declared that 'the sheriff u
posse, detectives or police, backed By the
State troops, killed four OF. more laborers
without proyocatlon while said laborers were
under arrest.n The assembly further ex-
pressed The belief that '.the lawless destruc-
ton of human life by the armed force en-
ployed was assassination; and We pronounce
against u; and again declared: we Will at
once appeal to our millions Of workingmen
| to ask 1T the hands OF Congress the repeal Of
the dl. ties on sugar, winch Will in the end
bring the planters to ascnEe OF. justice and
of the rights of Others and benefit the whole
people of the United States"
IL is scarcely necessary to say, after giving
the tenor OF these resoiQ Sioas, Fha. they were
passed through the influence OF q lotof city
politicians, who have got into the Knights of
Labor, aud in the interest OF Gen: Nichols
candiGaey--men who are prepared to strike
down down Ionisisna and New Orleans 10 advance
his and their own chances The labor OTganl-
cation OF this city has fallen under Che con-
troll OF Few politicians, who are seeking to
| use 1t for their own personal advantage to
| advance themselves to Office. Among those
who framed and passed these resolutions
| were Federal and city officials, who think
| they can carry the labor vote against Nc
| Emery; and who, TO accomplish this end,
| propose 10 SUfFtllttE tIiS July On SuBhT, w
| destroy hundreds of millions Of dollars and
| to bring the thousands OF lahorers, whom
| they are hypocritically pretending to favor,
| to little less TRAN starvation.
| We have warned the people Of this State
| that the sugar industry of the South was in
| great danger at the coming session OF Con-
| Sress, and that the Northern representatives
were seeking some excuse 10 destroy it. Not
| TIE TINES DEMOCRAT alone, but the PiCaylsRe
| and all the other reform papers have pointed
| ont the danger threatening US. and warned
| us that only by wisdom and circumSpection
could we escape this calamity. Yet in the
| face Of this danger, the Nichols politicians
| i'll the Knights of Labor declare their pur-
pose to appeal to the North to abolish the
sugar duty. Could factloAai passion go fur
| Their than this2
Should these scherning politicians and Of
| fioe-seekers succeed, there is not man i'll
Louisiana but would suffer from their mad
| course. Not the planters alone would be
! ruined, their property wrecked, their CAPITAL
| leans Itself be crippled by the loss OF trade
olis-Labor politicians succeed in their threat
TO remove the duty on sugar because Coy.
| McEnery ordered the militia to st. Mary TO
keer the peace and prevent riot. outrage aud
inCendiarisnl, what will become OF the 200,-
goo laborers and their families now sup
ported by work on the Plantations? with
the planters ruined and the plantations de-
serted where will these men find work? The
representatives OF the negro laborers in the
late planters convention declared that the
| abolition of this duty meant the ruin, pau
perisin, il not starvation, OF thousands OF la
borers. Yst, in the pretended interest OF these